Abstract: The New Left Collection largely relates to radical movements for political and social change in the United States during the
1960s and 1970s. It is the largest resource in the archives devoted to this turbulent period in American history. Organized
alphabetically by subject file, the collections consists of serial issues and other printed matter, and includes a great deal
of ephemera, especially leaflets and flyers. Topics covered in the collection include the movement against the Vietnam War;
student radicalism; the civil rights movement and black militancy; revolutionary organizations; the women's liberation movement;
and the counter-culture.

Access

Collection is open for research.

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copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
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or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.

Publication Rights

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1969. An increment was added in 2011.

Related Collection(s)

Radical Right Collection, Hoover Institution Archives

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.

The New Left Collection largely relates to radical movements for political and social change in the United States during the
1960s and 1970s. It is the largest resource in the archives devoted to this turbulent period in American history. Organized
alphabetically by subject, the collection consists of serial issues and other printed matter, and includes a great deal of
ephemera, especially leaflets and flyers. Topics covered in the collection include the movement against the Vietnam War; student
radicalism; the civil rights movement and black militancy; revolutionary organizations; the women's liberation movement; and
the counter-culture.

There is a special emphasis in the collection on protest movements that emerged on college campuses in the San Francisco Bay
Area. There are extensive materials relating to events at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and
San Francisco State University. There is also considerable documentation of the organization, Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS), dating from its earliest years through the factional struggles that culminated in a split in SDS in 1969.

The collection was initially developed and curated by Dr. Edward Bacciocco, author of
American New Left, 1956-1970 (Hoover Institution Press, 1974). Numerous increments have been added to the collection over the years; many of these incremental
materials are described at the end of the finding aid. A number of topics in the register appear more than once, as a general
heading or as a subheading, as in the case of Students for a Democratic Society, which appears both as a general subject and
under the headings of a number of universities where local groups of SDS were active.